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In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.
so, here it is: https://www.blackle.com/
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Location: Over the hills and far away, United Kingdom
Don't know about it saving energy, but hey, it looks cool.
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So a CRT probably burns more energy projecting a white pixel than a black one, but how about an LCD or plasma display?
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hmm interesting.....I would totally change from google as my home page to that if it had the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button
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blackle appeases my DOS GUI fetish
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looks much better
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So a CRT probably burns more energy projecting a white pixel than a black one, but how about an LCD or plasma display?
Yea I'd be surprised if there is any difference between black and white on an LCD monitor.
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blackle appeases my DOS GUI fetish
hear hear.
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Elusive and Bearded
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
i also noticed there is no image search Blackle is out
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No maps either... Pity really.
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Location: melbourne, Australia
pfft, i like elgoog better https://elgoog.rb-hosting.de/index.cgi always a fun prank to play on friends that have google as their home page.
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pfft, i like elgoog better https://elgoog.rb-hosting.de/index.cgi always a fun prank to play on friends that have google as their home page.
that is really cool if it worked like a search engine, but when you do a search a bunch of irrelevant stuff comes up, also no image search. USELESS.
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